Quoting Joonas Lahtinen (2017-06-13 15:07:04)
> On pe, 2017-06-09 at 12:03 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
> > we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted pages (those
> > objects that userspace has marked MADV_DONTNEE
On pe, 2017-06-09 at 12:03 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
> we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted pages (those
> objects that userspace has marked MADV_DONTNEED) or by reclaiming the
> dirty objects via swap. As w
On Fri 09-06-17 12:51:57, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Michal Hocko (2017-06-09 12:17:26)
> > [Add Hugh]
> >
> > On Fri 09-06-17 12:03:50, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
> > > we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted
Quoting Michal Hocko (2017-06-09 12:17:26)
> [Add Hugh]
>
> On Fri 09-06-17 12:03:50, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
> > we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted pages (those
> > objects that userspace has marked MADV_DO
[Add Hugh]
On Fri 09-06-17 12:03:50, Chris Wilson wrote:
> When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
> we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted pages (those
> objects that userspace has marked MADV_DONTNEED) or by reclaiming the
> dirty objects via swap.
When we are called to relieve mempressue via the shrinker, the only way
we can make progress is either by discarding unwanted pages (those
objects that userspace has marked MADV_DONTNEED) or by reclaiming the
dirty objects via swap. As we know that is the only way to make further
progress, we can i